Example sentences for: execrable

How can you use “execrable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 4. She displayed execrable judgment in posing on a beach with an American flag for Vanity Fair . Her vanity duly engaged--as whose would not be?

  • I am prejudiced, I know, but while I find the use of impact as a verb an interesting linguistic development, I consider it execrable style for literate speakers and (especially) writers; yet it appears in Rose's Preface, where one can also find a transitive use for coruscate ( OED2e please note).

  • It ineluctably reminds me of the favorite execrable pun perpetrated by those who seem to be in the throes of learning English: “Let's throw a little light on the subject,” said the man as he turned on the lamp.

  • Is everything that comes out of the latter-day study of women and the Holocaust (Culturebox says latter-day because he exempts chroniclers of the ghetto from his criticisms) "execrable," "one of the worst excesses" of Holocaust studies, and "nakedly ideological"?

  • See page 161,” whither we skedaddled to find this execrable piece of misinformation: “The word `knothead' was first used by Max Shulman in his Collection of Campus Stories: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.


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